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Walt Whitman (born Walter Whitman) (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist born in West Hills, Huntington on Long Island in New York. His most famous works are the poetry collections Leaves of Grass and Drum-Taps. (read more...)
Photo credit: George C. Cox (1887), Source: Library of Congress.
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"The world is fast learning that of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him."
In An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City, February 12, 1909
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Births
- 1274 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (d. 1329)
- 1767 - John Quincy Adams, (pictured) President of the United States (d. 1848)
- 1916 - Gough Whitlam, twenty-first Prime Minister of Australia
- 1930 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic
- 1958 - Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
- 1968 - David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
- 1972 - Michael Rosenbaum, American actor
- 1975 - Lil' Kim, American rapper
- 1983 - Marie Serneholt, Swedish musician (A*Teens)
Deaths
- 1920 - Empress Eugénie de Montijo of France (b. 1826)
- 1937 - George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
- 1971 - John W. Campbell, American writer and editor (b. 1910)
- 1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor (b. 1907)
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